Cladangia aquitaniensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladangiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Time the record covers
At least 8.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Cladangia aquitaniensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Cladangia aquitaniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cladangia aquitaniensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cladangia aquitaniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
244 taxa- Acropora exarata2 sites
- Acropora lavandulina2 sites
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui2 sites
- Aquitanastraea pruvosti2 sites
- Balanophyllia varians2 sites
- Culicia parasita2 sites
- Defrancia irregularis2 sites
- Dendrophyllia amica2 sites
- Dendrophyllia longaeva2 sites
- Dendrophyllia taurinensis2 sites
- Diploastrea diversiformis2 sites
- Diploastrea miocenica2 sites
- Diploastrea multisepta2 sites
- Diploastrea rosacea2 sites
- Favites2 sites
- Favites neglecta2 sites
- Goniopora2 sites
- Heliastrea delicata2 sites
- Lithophyllia2 sites
- Pocillopora madreporacea2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porites collegniana2 sites
- Siderastrea miocenica2 sites
- Solenastrea desmoulinsi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cladangia aquitaniensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène4
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]2
- Structural and faunal evolution of Chattian-Miocene reefs and corals in western France and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cladangia aquitaniensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cladangia aquitaniensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCladangia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961